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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2016

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2014
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jack Steenstra, San Diego, CA (US);

Kirk Steven Taylor, San Diego, CA (US);

Liren Chen, San Diego, CA (US);

Alexander Gantman, Poway, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04W 8/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/023 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/04 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/185 (2013.01); H04W 4/206 (2013.01); H04W 8/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for providing a location based service to create a social network, comprising activating a feature from a wireless terminal, registering from the wireless terminal with a location based service associated with the feature, creating a profile of a user of the feature, and displaying candidates based on the profile and based on the geographic location of the candidates. A Global Positioning System (GPS) may be used to geographically locate active users of a feature. An activity map may be associated with a feature, the activity map displaying active users of the feature.


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